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About the Visual Arts Contest...

The annual Culture Shapers Visual Arts Contest enables student artists to compete for more than $70,000 in cash prizes in six categories... drawing, painting, electronic media, mixed media, photography and sculpture. The contest takes place in the Fall, and is open to all High School Students in Harris, Waller, Liberty, Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.

Students receive a commemorative t-shirt with their entry fee. Entry forms will be e-mailed to the teacher after online registration. Teachers or students deliver and pickup the entries at the drop-off location at Westfield High School.

Each year, the Culture Shapers Volunteer Staff receive about 1,500 entries! This year, jurying will take place on Sunday, October 31st. The top ten finalists in each category are personally invited to the exclusive Awards Banquet on Wednesday, December 8th at Shirley Acres, where the winners are finally announced before a live audience!

About the Culture Shapers Jurying Process...

Culture Shapers jurors are a combination of educators and professionals, who come highly recommended to us by other notable organizations, such as the Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE), as well as others. Many of our jurors have experience both in and out of the classroom, which gives them a unique and valuable perspective on evaluating student artwork. Click here to read more about the Culture Shapers jurying process.

The Visual Arts Awards Ceremony

Click here for details about the Visual Arts Awards Ceremony!

About Young Voices of Houston...

In 2005, Culture Shapers expanded into the performing arts, with the Young Voices of Houston performing arts contest. Featuring ten to twelve of the top vocalists from area high schools, Young Voices provides these talented students the opportunity to perform vocal works for a live audience and compete for cash prizes! Young Voices of Houston competitions are held several times throughout the year. Click here to learn more about Young Voices of Houston!

Archive for September, 2009

Semi Final # 1 Winners

Third place and $200 goes to Bethany Trevino from Klein Collins. She is eligible to come back again. Not coming back until the FINALS in April are runner up and winning $300 Michael Williams of Klein Oak. The first place winner of $500 is Drew Jones a Sophmore from the British International School of Houston. [...]

Thursday- October 1st

This week you can begin the on line registration for the 10th year of CultureShapers Visual Art competition. Registation is open until October 20th and entries must be physically delivered October 31st.

Mary Lou Johnson

The sage says that “if you see a turtle on a fence post, you know that he didn’t get there alone”. CultureShapers IS what it IS because of the awesome support for 10 years now of Administaff’s financial commitment to the local art community. And for ALL ten years now, four administrators have met several [...]

Film Festival- February 13-14

If we can raise $15,000 (can you help?) we plan on having a FILM FESTIVAL with the same prize money as the other six categories. Saturday: All day viewing of films by PUBLIC and judges (popcorn, hot dogs, soft drinks, and fun). We’d expect 2-300 attendees! Sunday: Judges review top films in the morning and [...]

Less Than 3 Weeks Away

You will be able to start entering your art pieces in just three weeks. October 1-20 is the official ON LINE entry period. This is the first year that we’ve used an ON LINE registration. So get familiar with the process. There’s money to be earned!

Sept 29th Semi- Order of Appearance

1-Cassie Eggen (Soph Klein) will sing “Defying Gravity” 2-Robert Lewis (Sr. Tomball) will sing “Moving Too Fast“. 3-Ryne Nardecchia (Fr. Klein Oak) will sing “Mama Says” 4-Danny Dyer (Sr Klein Oak) will sing “If I Can’t Love Her“. 5-Diego Fresquez (Sr Klein Oak) will sing “If I Didn’t Believe In You“. 6-Connor Jones (Soph. Klein) [...]

The First Semi-Final : September 29th

Are you ready to sign up for the new season? As with years past simply email me a very brief bio, teachr recommendation, school, grade, and song selection. There’s only one rule change this year. A person can only perform a maximum of three times and no back-to-back monthly performances. We will take two alternatives [...]

Bob Mosier Sculpture Training

Have you signed up for the September 19th seminar? It’s FREE (sponsored by CultureShapers) but you must register. Bob is one of the most respected sculpture teachers with his students winning many awards, especially in the CultureShapers annual contest. Just email us to register for the 19th (9-12am) Program is at the CultureShapers office at [...]